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Some of the Science of Love as told through selected tales of brain chemistry, by the guys atĀ AsapSCIENCE.

Despite what those picture memes that you run into on Tumblr tell you, love is a complicated, incompletely understood interaction of many neurotransmitters, brain regions and complex human behaviors. It’s about a helluva lot more than just oxytocin, which instead of being called the “hug hormone” should really be called the “hype hormone”.

So if you want to be MY valentine, respect the beauty that comes in not completely understanding the science of love, a feeling so universal, so powerful … an unknown whose true nature that we continue to chase in so many different ways :)

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    love as seen by science.
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    Apparently I need oxytocin.
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